Karen J Prager
Biographic Data
| ID | 650307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen J Prager |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen J |
| FAMILY NAME | Prager |
| SIGNATURE | PRAGER K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Dallas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9984-171X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Intimacy reduces withdrawal after conflict in cohabiting couples
Withdrawal, meaning emotional disengagement or the "silent treatment," compromises couple relationship satisfaction and well-being. In contrast, intimate interactions between partners -characterized by self-disclosure and understanding - promote warmth, mutual knowledge, and satisfaction. The benefits of intimacy may thereby reduce partners' tendencies to withdraw after a conflict. Both partners in 217 committed, cohabiting couples (434 individua…
But I said I'm sorry: Helpfulness of romantic couples' efforts to reconcile after conflict
Whereas several decades of research have documented behavior during couples' conflict discussions that is destructive to the couple relationship, the effectiveness of post‐conflict reconciliation efforts has only recently received research attention. The current study aimed to discover how couples' negative and positive communication during conflict discussions was associated with the helpfulness of two strategies for reconciling: Active Repair a…
Intimacy, attachment to the partner, and daily well-being in romantic relationships
Self-disclosure ordinarily benefits individual well-being; however, if someone discloses with an unresponsive listener, self-disclosure may fail to enhance well-being. Because prior research has primarily studied the additive effects of disclosure and listener's responsiveness on well-being, this study investigated their interactive effects on well-being in romantic relationships. Because attachment orientation is closely associated with needs fo…
Withdrawal, attachment security, and recovery from conflict in couple relationships
This study used 115 cohabiting couple partners’ 21-day diaries, with which they reported each evening on their moods and their relationships, to test hypotheses about connections between withdrawal following conflict, attachment insecurity, and affective recovery from conflict (i.e., post-conflict relationship satisfaction, positive and negative mood, and intimacy). Individuals reported on their own and their partners’ post-conflict withdrawals. …
Recovery from conflict and revival of intimacy in cohabiting couples
Couples who seek a stable and satisfying relationship must recover emotionally and reestablish their intimate connection after their conflicts are over. In a 3‐week diary study, 100 cohabiting couples reported on their daily moods, intimacy, relationship satisfaction, and conflicts. Results indicated that on days following a conflict, couple partners have worse mood, less satisfaction, and less self‐disclosure than on other days. Attachment secur…
Dilemmas of Intimacy: Conceptualization, Assessment, and Treatment
Daily experiences of intimacy: A study of couples
The present study examined people's working definitions of intimacy , which emerge through daily interactions that are perceived as intimate by the participant. We proposed that working definitions should be reflected in a set of interaction characteristics that prompt relationship partners to label their interaction as intimate. Participants were 113 cohabiting couples who completed questionnaires and kept diaries of their interactions for 1 wee…
Intimacy and Need Fulfillment in Couple Relationships
Two studies were conducted to explore the following questions: (i) does intimacy, within the context of a couple relationship, contribute to individual need fulfillment?; (ii) does self-disclosure have beneficial effects on need fulfillment without being accompanied by intimacy's others dimensions: positive affective tone and partner listening and understanding?; and (iii) does intimacy's impact on need fulfillment mediate its relationship with p…
The Psychology of Intimacy
Patterns and functions of self-disclosure during childhood and adolescence
As the eyes are the “window of the soul,” so too is self-disclosure a window to people's pressing feelings, thoughts, and concerns. In this chapter, we view the complex interplay between individual development and interpersonal experiences through the window of self-disclosure. We begin with an overview of our conceptual assumptions about the role that self-disclosure plays in the larger processes of individual development and interpersonal relat…
Intimacy Status and Couple Conflict Resolution
Fifty couples participated in a study to assess the relationship between individual intimacy development and conflict resolution style. Each individual was given an intimacy status interview, and couples were videotaped while discussing an area of conflict in their relationship. The hypothesis that men and women classified into the Intimate status would use more cognitively oriented conflict resolution strategies was not supported, although a tre…
Intimacy Status and Couple Communication
Based on Erikson's theory that successful resolution of the intimacy vs. isolation crisis results in the enhancement of one's capacity to maintain close relationships, it was hypothesized that a fully developed capacity for intimacy would affect the depth of a person's self-disclosure to his or her romantic partner. A sample of 49 couples ranging in age from 22 to 57 completed an intimacy status interview, the Jourard Self-Disclosure Questionnair…
Androgyny, ego development, and psychosocial crisis resolution
Development of Intimacy in Young Adults, a Multidimensional View
50 female and 37 male adult college students responded to an interview, which permitted subjects to be categorized according to their style of coping with the intimacy crisis of young adulthood. The five categories are intimate, preintimate, pseudointimate, stereotyped relationships, and isolate. Subjects in the five statuses were compared on their levels of emotional, physical and intellectual intimacy as measured by the Holt Intimacy Developmen…
Intimacy and Need Fulfillment in Couple Relationships
Two studies were conducted to explore the following questions: (i) does intimacy, within the context of a couple relationship, contribute to individual need fulfillment?; (ii) does self-disclosure have beneficial effects on need fulfillment without being accompanied by intimacy's others dimensions: positive affective tone and partner listening and understanding?; and (iii) does intimacy's impact on need fulfillment mediate its relationship with p…
Recovery from conflict and revival of intimacy in cohabiting couples
Couples who seek a stable and satisfying relationship must recover emotionally and reestablish their intimate connection after their conflicts are over. In a 3‐week diary study, 100 cohabiting couples reported on their daily moods, intimacy, relationship satisfaction, and conflicts. Results indicated that on days following a conflict, couple partners have worse mood, less satisfaction, and less self‐disclosure than on other days. Attachment secur…
Intimacy Status and Couple Communication
Based on Erikson's theory that successful resolution of the intimacy vs. isolation crisis results in the enhancement of one's capacity to maintain close relationships, it was hypothesized that a fully developed capacity for intimacy would affect the depth of a person's self-disclosure to his or her romantic partner. A sample of 49 couples ranging in age from 22 to 57 completed an intimacy status interview, the Jourard Self-Disclosure Questionnair…
Intimacy, attachment to the partner, and daily well-being in romantic relationships
Self-disclosure ordinarily benefits individual well-being; however, if someone discloses with an unresponsive listener, self-disclosure may fail to enhance well-being. Because prior research has primarily studied the additive effects of disclosure and listener's responsiveness on well-being, this study investigated their interactive effects on well-being in romantic relationships. Because attachment orientation is closely associated with needs fo…
Withdrawal, attachment security, and recovery from conflict in couple relationships
This study used 115 cohabiting couple partners’ 21-day diaries, with which they reported each evening on their moods and their relationships, to test hypotheses about connections between withdrawal following conflict, attachment insecurity, and affective recovery from conflict (i.e., post-conflict relationship satisfaction, positive and negative mood, and intimacy). Individuals reported on their own and their partners’ post-conflict withdrawals. …
Androgyny, ego development, and psychosocial crisis resolution
Intimacy Status and Couple Conflict Resolution
Fifty couples participated in a study to assess the relationship between individual intimacy development and conflict resolution style. Each individual was given an intimacy status interview, and couples were videotaped while discussing an area of conflict in their relationship. The hypothesis that men and women classified into the Intimate status would use more cognitively oriented conflict resolution strategies was not supported, although a tre…
Intimacy reduces withdrawal after conflict in cohabiting couples
Withdrawal, meaning emotional disengagement or the "silent treatment," compromises couple relationship satisfaction and well-being. In contrast, intimate interactions between partners -characterized by self-disclosure and understanding - promote warmth, mutual knowledge, and satisfaction. The benefits of intimacy may thereby reduce partners' tendencies to withdraw after a conflict. Both partners in 217 committed, cohabiting couples (434 individua…
Development of Intimacy in Young Adults, a Multidimensional View
50 female and 37 male adult college students responded to an interview, which permitted subjects to be categorized according to their style of coping with the intimacy crisis of young adulthood. The five categories are intimate, preintimate, pseudointimate, stereotyped relationships, and isolate. Subjects in the five statuses were compared on their levels of emotional, physical and intellectual intimacy as measured by the Holt Intimacy Developmen…
Androgyny, ego development, and psychosocial crisis resolution
Intimacy Status and Couple Communication
Based on Erikson's theory that successful resolution of the intimacy vs. isolation crisis results in the enhancement of one's capacity to maintain close relationships, it was hypothesized that a fully developed capacity for intimacy would affect the depth of a person's self-disclosure to his or her romantic partner. A sample of 49 couples ranging in age from 22 to 57 completed an intimacy status interview, the Jourard Self-Disclosure Questionnair…
Intimacy Status and Couple Conflict Resolution
Fifty couples participated in a study to assess the relationship between individual intimacy development and conflict resolution style. Each individual was given an intimacy status interview, and couples were videotaped while discussing an area of conflict in their relationship. The hypothesis that men and women classified into the Intimate status would use more cognitively oriented conflict resolution strategies was not supported, although a tre…
Patterns and functions of self-disclosure during childhood and adolescence
As the eyes are the “window of the soul,” so too is self-disclosure a window to people's pressing feelings, thoughts, and concerns. In this chapter, we view the complex interplay between individual development and interpersonal experiences through the window of self-disclosure. We begin with an overview of our conceptual assumptions about the role that self-disclosure plays in the larger processes of individual development and interpersonal relat…
The Psychology of Intimacy
Intimacy and Need Fulfillment in Couple Relationships
Two studies were conducted to explore the following questions: (i) does intimacy, within the context of a couple relationship, contribute to individual need fulfillment?; (ii) does self-disclosure have beneficial effects on need fulfillment without being accompanied by intimacy's others dimensions: positive affective tone and partner listening and understanding?; and (iii) does intimacy's impact on need fulfillment mediate its relationship with p…
Daily experiences of intimacy: A study of couples
The present study examined people's working definitions of intimacy , which emerge through daily interactions that are perceived as intimate by the participant. We proposed that working definitions should be reflected in a set of interaction characteristics that prompt relationship partners to label their interaction as intimate. Participants were 113 cohabiting couples who completed questionnaires and kept diaries of their interactions for 1 wee…
Dilemmas of Intimacy: Conceptualization, Assessment, and Treatment
Recovery from conflict and revival of intimacy in cohabiting couples
Couples who seek a stable and satisfying relationship must recover emotionally and reestablish their intimate connection after their conflicts are over. In a 3‐week diary study, 100 cohabiting couples reported on their daily moods, intimacy, relationship satisfaction, and conflicts. Results indicated that on days following a conflict, couple partners have worse mood, less satisfaction, and less self‐disclosure than on other days. Attachment secur…
Withdrawal, attachment security, and recovery from conflict in couple relationships
This study used 115 cohabiting couple partners’ 21-day diaries, with which they reported each evening on their moods and their relationships, to test hypotheses about connections between withdrawal following conflict, attachment insecurity, and affective recovery from conflict (i.e., post-conflict relationship satisfaction, positive and negative mood, and intimacy). Individuals reported on their own and their partners’ post-conflict withdrawals. …
Intimacy, attachment to the partner, and daily well-being in romantic relationships
Self-disclosure ordinarily benefits individual well-being; however, if someone discloses with an unresponsive listener, self-disclosure may fail to enhance well-being. Because prior research has primarily studied the additive effects of disclosure and listener's responsiveness on well-being, this study investigated their interactive effects on well-being in romantic relationships. Because attachment orientation is closely associated with needs fo…
But I said I'm sorry: Helpfulness of romantic couples' efforts to reconcile after conflict
Whereas several decades of research have documented behavior during couples' conflict discussions that is destructive to the couple relationship, the effectiveness of post‐conflict reconciliation efforts has only recently received research attention. The current study aimed to discover how couples' negative and positive communication during conflict discussions was associated with the helpfulness of two strategies for reconciling: Active Repair a…
Intimacy reduces withdrawal after conflict in cohabiting couples
Withdrawal, meaning emotional disengagement or the "silent treatment," compromises couple relationship satisfaction and well-being. In contrast, intimate interactions between partners -characterized by self-disclosure and understanding - promote warmth, mutual knowledge, and satisfaction. The benefits of intimacy may thereby reduce partners' tendencies to withdraw after a conflict. Both partners in 217 committed, cohabiting couples (434 individua…
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (7 works) · Self-disclosure (5 works) · Identity, Memory, and Therapy (4 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works)